If you were hoping to cash in that Borders gift card for the latest Dan Brown novel — or at least hoping to get some cash for it — you're too late.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the bankrupt and defunct book chain owes nothing to the roughly 17.7 million people who hold $210.5 million in unredeemed gift cards.
Gift cards are a scam perpetrated on the American public by retailers. Gift cards to chain stores are a shit gift. Do not give gift cards as presents.
(Related: If this news leaves you feeling nostalgic about Borders, I wrote a thing about working at Borders a couple years ago that might scratch that itch.)
